Example sentences of "[noun] not of the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was a result not of the Bill or of the war but of a 1938 decision whose effect was delayed by the outbreak of war . |
| 2 | This case is therefore best considered as an instance not of the role of intention in trusts , but of the general role it could play in the interpretation of testamentary dispositions . |
| 3 | This was claimed to be the work not of the IRA proper , but of the Irish National Liberation Army , an offshoot of it . |
| 4 | Any disregard of this may provide the minority shareholders with a claim under s459 Companies Act 1985 , under which they may complain against resolutions of the company which are for the benefit not of the company as a whole , but of the majority shareholders alone . |
| 5 | As the psychoanalyst , or therapist , delves into the unconscious of his or her patients , he will come up against phylogenetic material , memory traces of the experiences not of the patient , but of earlier generations of humanity . |
| 6 | Lord may I pick it up page four hundred and two erm at lesson B er there 's a plea of breach of duty , this new plea does however raise the issue not of the original , not apparent on the original fee then what is the scope of the solicitor 's duty that part of a particular aspect of a problem . |
| 7 | Does the Secretary of State accept that there has not been , is not and will not be a majority in Scotland for the Trident missile system and that , ultimately , its deployment will depend on the consent not of the Westminster Parliament but of the Scottish people , and it will not be forthcoming ? |
| 8 | But the view that poverty is the consequence not of the failure of growth but of its very success is one that needs to be taken seriously . |
| 9 | If it had been used more often , politicians and broadcasters alike would have regarded that as evidence not of the system 's success but of its failure . |
| 10 | In a Christian world-view therefore the superiority of the market over a state-owned economy is based on a comparison not of the efficiency but of the humanity of the two systems . |
| 11 | Even with sentences not of the form A is f(X) it is often the case that a sentence containing a hyponym unilaterally entails a parallel sentence which is identical in all respects except that it contains a superordinate in place of the hyponym : |
| 12 | It was an approach not of the land-users themselves but of their rulers , and therefore it is necessary to discuss briefly what the colonial rulers ' political and economic interests were , and in what way they related to the people of colonised areas and to the natural resources they found there . |
| 13 | bank deposits in currency not of the country in which the bank holding them is located |
| 14 | bank deposits in currency not of the country in which the bank holding them is located . |
| 15 | In discussions of the recent Italian novel , however , most attention has been focused on its treatment not of the future , but of the past . |
| 16 | To Roosevelt the view propounded by our friend James Buchanan was narrowly legalistic in which the president was the servant not of the people but of congress and this , to Roosevelt , was . |
| 17 | He had come across very few others not of the Kind , with that strength of vision . |
| 18 | Unity of organization which by its nature will be a very longterm matter and unity in doctrines not of the substance of the faith , and we all know of significant divisions there , do not affect the central doctrine . |
| 19 | Logic , however , is a feature not of the grammar of a language or dialect , but of arguments in sentences and in texts . |
| 20 | Yet all around her , in their revolutionary impulse , men and women not of the greatness of Coleridge but certainty of a similar ambition were beginning to log and classify , to catalogue and proudly identify what , until quite recently , had been the terrain of a very few — the variety of nature as known by Mary . |
| 21 | It is a mystic power not of the world of material facts , a divine gift in compensation for our ephemeral life . |